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Nigeria : Attacks, military crackdown kill up to 100 in Nigeria

on 2011/12/25 10:19:04

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AFP
Attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram followed by a heavy military crackdown have killed up to 100 people in the north of Nigeria, authorities and a rights group said Saturday.

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Nigeria : Clashes between sect, police kill 61 in Nigeria

on 2011/12/25 10:16:04

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AP
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Fighting between a radical Muslim sect and paramilitary forces in Nigeria has killed at least 61 people over several days of violence in the nation's northeast that has left churches bombed and people hiding in fear, authorities said.

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Nigeria : Day of violence in northern Nigeria kills at least 24

on 2011/12/24 10:43:35

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Clashes between a violent Islamist sect and security forces in Nigeria's northeastern city of Damaturu have killed at least 24 people in the past day, police said on Friday.

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Nigeria : Nigeria coast braces for biggest oil spill in 13 years

on 2011/12/24 10:38:16

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Nigerian authorities were putting emergency measures in place on Thursday to prevent an oil spill from a Royal Dutch Shell facility, the biggest leak in Nigeria for more than 13 years, washing up on its densely populated coast.

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Nigeria : Gun battle, explosions erupt in northern Nigeria

on 2011/12/24 10:34:25

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Reuters
(Reuters) - A sustained gun battle broke out between Nigerian security forces and suspected Islamist militants in the northern city of Damaturu on Thursday, and several explosions were heard, witnesses and the local police commissioner said.

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Nigeria : Shell shuts offshore Nigerian oilfield after leak

on 2011/12/22 10:37:57

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Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is shutting down its huge 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) Bonga oilfield off the Nigerian coast after a leak occurred while loading a tanker on Tuesday, the firm said in a statement.

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Nigeria : Nigeria police arrest 14 after deadly shootout with sect

on 2011/12/20 10:28:02

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Nigerian police have arrested 14 suspected members of an Islamist sect and seized explosives after a gun battle on Saturday left four militants and three policemen dead in the northern city of Kano, the police commissioner said.

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Nigeria : Nigeria launches satellite to replace earlier failed attempt

on 2011/12/20 10:17:12

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AFP
Nigeria on Monday launched a communications satellite into space to replace one that failed in 2008, the country's satellite agency said.

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Nigeria : Nigeria seizes bomb factory after Islamist attacks

on 2011/12/18 15:34:46

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Nigerian authorities raided a bomb making factory Saturday belonging to suspected members of an Islamist sect in the northeast, the military said, after gun and bomb attacks across northern Nigeria over four days killed at least seven people.

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Nigeria : Twin blasts rock Nigerian city

on 2011/12/12 16:30:00

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Press TV
Several people have reportedly been injured in a double explosion that rocked the Nigerian city of Jos- - the scene of recent conflicts between ethnic groups.

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Nigeria : Two U.S. citizens kidnapped in Nigeria released

on 2011/12/3 10:34:59

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Two Americans abducted off the Nigerian coast last month from a vessel contracted to the Chevron oil company have been released, the U.S. embassy in Abuja said on Friday.

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Nigeria : Analysis: Tsar sacking unlikely to curb Nigerian graft

on 2011/11/26 10:55:50

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Reuters
LONDON (TrustLaw) - The sacking this week of Nigeria's anti-graft chief may give the country's fight against corruption a short-term boost, but significant change is unlikely without deeper reforms to the justice system, analysts say.

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Nigeria : Several killed in central Nigeria religious violence

on 2011/11/26 10:34:05

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Several people were killed in religious violence in central Nigeria on Thursday, prompting the military to impose a 24-hour curfew in one region at the border between the West African country's mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south.

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Nigeria : Security fears keep president from home state vote

on 2011/11/20 11:16:54

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Security fears kept Nigeria's president from attending his party's gubernatorial primary on Saturday in his home state that has been tainted by an escalating row over the incumbent governor's exclusion from running.

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Nigeria : Nigeria's central bank: naira at desired stability

on 2011/11/20 11:09:09

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Nigeria's central bank has reached the desired degree of stability for the country's naira currency and does not have a cause to be concerned over inflation due mostly to recent stability in its core components, Governor Lamido Sanusi said on Saturday.

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Nigeria : Nigerian Chevron vessel hijacked, 3 hostages taken

on 2011/11/19 10:06:50

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Eight pirates boarded an oil supply vessel contracted by Chevron Corp off the Nigerian coast and took three hostages, the U.S. oil company said on Friday.

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Nigeria : Pirates hijack Chevron vessel off Nigeria: sources

on 2011/11/19 9:57:04

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Armed men boarded an oil supply vessel contracted by U.S. energy company Chevron off the Nigerian coast early on Friday, shipping and security sources said.

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Nigeria : Nigerian literary icon rejects presidential award

on 2011/11/17 13:52:27

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Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian literary icon Chinua Achebe said he rejected an award due to be given to him by President Goodluck Jonathan this week because the political problems in Africa's most populous nation had not been tackled since he snubbed the prize seven years ago.

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Nigeria : In Nigeria's northeast, some sympathy for Islamists

on 2011/11/16 11:01:55

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Wiping grease onto his t-shirt outside his bicycle repair shack, Baba Gana points to a bomb blast site across the street and explains why this northeastern Nigerian town has sympathy for radical Islamists who terrorize its inhabitants.

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Nigeria : Vote row flares in Nigerian president's home state

on 2011/11/14 18:46:52

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Reuters
YENAGOA/ABUJA (Reuters) - The powerful governor of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's home state Bayelsa has been disqualified from taking part in a gubernatorial primary, his party said, raising the risk of a dangerous political row in the oil-producing region.

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